Quotes About Fame

To me, Messi, Neymar and Suarez are among the three best players in the world.

This is the joke of me being a part of 'Lost': I haven't met three-quarters of that cast.

I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily.

I remember the days beginning at sixteen, seventeen years old in Girls Aloud. Nobody knew us, nobody cared. We'd do university shows and people threw beers cans at us. All sorts of crazy things! We had to work really hard to get where we did.

The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.

Maybe Elvis was inhibited by inbred religious prohibitions or an Oedipal complex, or maybe he simply preferred the thrill of a denied release. Whatever put the brakes on the famous pelvis, it ground to a halt at a certain point, and that was it.

I've never felt massively satisfied from standing there while someone takes my photograph. It's never given me a thrill.

It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.

The thrill of autograph collecting is getting close to a world you're not part of.

My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that.

I don't go there much. You're thrilled that people would recognize what you're doing in such a grand kind of way. But, just like you don't know if anybody's really going to like what you're doing when you put a record out or if anybody's going to pay attention to it, you can't really go there.

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

My song from 'Footloose,' 'Almost Paradise,' went number 1 dislodging Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' from that spot.

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

My dad's always been a famous actor, so I've grown up with that, and with the lifestyle. In a way, I think I thrive on the insecurity that comes with it. Not in my private life - I like to believe that my friendships and my relationships are strong.

Actors who are super successful are the ones who thrive on the image by creating their forte.

Chris was very comfortable in the public eye and thrived in that kind of environment. I, less so.

There's this way pop culture has been rammed down our throats that people think that if they were just in the right place at the right time, they'd be married to Heidi Klum.

When you're part of a pop phenomenon, you have so many opinions shoved down your throat.

Let's take it back to John Cena and Rock back in the day, when people felt like they was just shoved down their throats. Eventually, they earned the people's respect, and the next thing you know, they were just loved by the whole world.

I love 'Watch the Throne,' because Kanye was acting so ratchet.